Netflix’s Most-Watched Series Of 2021

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Audiences have devoured its story of orphaned mapmaker Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li), who discovers she holds the unique — and life-changing — power to summon light as powerful as the sun. Were it not for a tweet, however, the show may not have happened at all. About a year later, Heisserer got a call from Netflix.

And I said, ‘Well OK, good luck. As Shawn Levy — who was brought on to executive produce “Shadow and Bone” with his company 21 Laps after Heisserer signed up — explains, for the streamer, “Their ambition with ‘Shadow and Bone’ was do right by the fans of these best-selling novels, but also make a show that could be more broadly consumed than even the very popular books.” To accomplish that goal, Heisserer set himself and his team the complicated task of credibly combining two book series that, while occupying the same fantasy world, are markedly separate in their narratives and in their overall sensibilities.

“The ‘Shadow and Bone’ trilogy is a classic chosen one story. After all, Daenerys Targaryen’s storyline on “Game of Thrones” didn’t even start to intersect with the rest of show until the end of Season 5. We would simply be blowing up too much road that was in front of us if we did that.”

“I finally proposed, ‘What if the Crows’ mission was to kidnap Alina?’ And there was a pause on the phone on that conference call,” says Heisserer. “They’re very invested in the ‘Shadow and Bone’ trilogy,” he says.

Bringing the Crows to “Shadow and Bone,” however, wasn’t the only big change Heisserer wanted to make for the show. Daisy Head, and Jessie Mei Li in “Shadow and Bone.” Courtesy of Netflix Changing Alina’s heritage One of Heisserer’s favorite parts of the “Shadow and Bone” novels is that, while it tells a chosen one story, Alina strenuously resists taking part in it.

“It felt like, OK we’re no longer a snapshot of [the predominantly white casts of] ‘Lord of the Rings’ or ‘Game of Thrones.’ You’ve got a very interesting spectrum just from the onset.” Still, Heisserer didn’t quite get just how important it would be to have his show’s hero be half-Shu until he started his writers room.

Ben Barnes in “Shadow and Bone.” Courtesy of Netflix Planning for a second season, and hoping for many more after that The first season of “Shadow and Bone” ends with Kirigan (a.k.a. After spending all of Season 1 working so hard to integrate the two books, however, Heisserer says he plans to continue to weave the Crows into Alina’s story, and vice versa.

Netflix, however, has become notorious for cutting off most shows after its third season. “This is absolutely a show that can go more than three seasons, for sure,” he says. I want to spend more time in their world.”

What Is Netflix’S Most-Watched Series Of 2021?

Thanks to a run of successful original series like The Umbrella Academy and The Witcher, Netflix has increasingly embraced fantasy audiences, showing a willingness to back high-budget series adaptations like The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and its popular update of Nickelodeon’s fairy fantasy Fate: The Winx Saga — which the network recently announced is its most-watched series of 2021 so far. Out of all of these titles, Shadow and Bone feels the most like a would-be Game of Thrones successor. It’s high fantasy, set in a totally different fictional world, like Game of Thrones or The Lord of the Rings.

Aja Romano: Constance, I read part of the first book but never made it much further. Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone is by far the weakest book in her Grishaverse. If you read the full Grishaverse, you get to watch Bardugo level up with every single book.

But very little of that future good stuff is visible in Heisserer’s Shadow and Bone, despite Heisserer’s decision to import the cast of Six of Crows into the action of the central trilogy. One of the things it felt like Bardugo learned from writing the Shadow and Bone trilogy is that her characters are at their most interesting after they are morally compromised. Everything from there on out was just so much more fun to read!

Call me old-fashioned, but I just think you should not have to read five pretty lengthy books to understand the lore on a Netflix show! Would you be interested in even watching a second season if it came, Aja? Or has this first season killed your interest in the Grishaverse?

Like: This execution of the love triangle is not good, per se, but it’s still a fun experience! Shadow and Bone’s whole vibe as it stands is very “Netflix gives you the CW giving you Game of Thrones, but more boring.” So if Shadow and Bone gets a second season, I’d like to see it take a cue from what it actually looked like when the CW tried to do Game of Thrones, which was The 100.

Shadow and Bone season one is streaming on Netflix.